When Kenshin was still very young, his father taught him: "No matter what time, remember to maintain a good image, stand with the right posture, and sit with the right posture."
"Most people only see our outside, our outer image, which represents how we appear to other people."
Kenshin has always kept this in mind.
My father himself did the same.
He always wears a clean white or green close-fitting long-sleeved shirt, a black or gray vest, and straight trousers. His hair is tied into a short ponytail behind his head.
Although they are just daily wear, the appropriate and decent clothes, coupled with the father's tall and straight body, always make people's eyes shine and give people a sense of reliability and trust.
After settling in Shacheng, my father made many friends, both men and women.
For example, the famous legendary doctor Fu Jiao would come here every month and let his father do his hair. Sometimes he would bring a bottle of wine to thank his father for his superb skills.
"Jicheng, your hair cutting skills are really amazing."
The funeral doctor often looks into the mirror and sighs: "Is this also the function of the secret method?"
"No."
My father just smiled and said, "I'm just skilled."
Kenshin remembered that his father once said that he came from a distant country of secret arts. It was a magical and chaotic country with various secret societies and organizations, and a variety of secret techniques and spells.
The source of every spell can be traced back to the old gods in the past, and the mystic is the successor to the power of the old gods.
My father doesn't miss his hometown very much.
"Some places are better left in memories."
"Thinking about it now, I think it's not bad, but if I were to go back and live in such a chaotic and precarious place, it would be a kind of torture and pain."
My father is a talkative person.
He always patiently answered Kenshin's various doubts.
"Your mother's name is Negative Sword Bing. She was a swordsman from the negative sword clan. She died in a large-scale blood tide in the Blood Hill World."
"The blood tide is a riot of blood elements. It is a natural disaster, just like the sandstorm outside our sand city. The blood tide will be accompanied by the appearance of powerful blood element monsters. Many soldiers died in the response to the blood tide. They all
He is an amazing hero who protected more powerless civilians."
"As for where she is now, whether she is a ghost or has returned to the Sea of ​​Perdition, I don't know. Maybe one day she will come back to see us when she is tired from practicing."
My father talked about my mother's death in a calm and simple way.
Apart from his mother's whereabouts, Kenshin is also interested in his father's secret technique.
"My secret method is actually used all the time."
Father said with a smile.
"This secret technique is called [Charm Technique]. It can make people easily accepted and liked by everyone. It is an innate ability of our family."
"Charm can make it easier to get to know people, but this is just the beginning, because the process and results are unpredictable."
My father was able to travel all over the country, obtain the hair-cutting skills passed down from the short-bearded dwarves, establish himself in Shacheng, and win the favor of his cold and arrogant mother, all because of this secret method.
Kenshin didn't inherit this charm, nor did he get the swordsmanship talent his mother was born with, a family of sword bearers.
He studied in the swordsman department of the local "Forest Academy" in Shacheng, and his ultimate goal was to enter Qianyuan Mountain for further study. However, due to his poor grades, he failed to graduate in six years, and in the end Kenshin had to drop out and leave school.
After working as a swordsman in the [Supernatural Guild] for several years, Kenshin's elemental sword ability suddenly improved by leaps and bounds. Not only did he realize [Avoidance] and [Stubbornness], but he also awakened the [Theological] trait.
It was as if some kind of switch had been turned on.
Jian Xin thought that it might be his sincere prayer to God Yao that aroused the god's mercy.
In the second year, Kenshin found that it was especially easy for him to make friends. Even if he was just standing there waiting for someone, the men and women passing by would come over to say hello, chat with him, and want to get acquainted with him.
Unlike his father, his awakened [Charm] only affects the opposite sex. Actively activating it will amplify its ability, which is regarded as an advancement of Charm.
Kenshin wasn't very happy either.
Many things in the world have a time limit.
When I was a child, I loved a wooden sword and thought it was the best treasure in the world. If I could get it, I would own the whole world.
But after that time, I will no longer be so attached to the wooden sword.
In the past, Kenshin worked very hard to study swordsmanship, hoping to enter Qianyuan Mountain and become a high-profile and respected elemental swordsman, but now he no longer has this idea.
One day, Kenshin suddenly didn't want to work anymore.
I am not the type to be extravagant and wasteful. I only need three meals a day. I have saved a little money, plus a large amount of money sent by my father. I can save a little and use it for a lifetime.
So Kenshin changed his life.
He went to the Eternal City to live for a year, played ice hockey with the giants, taught the Nibelungs basic swordsmanship, and visited the Apostle Blood Knight, who was as quiet as a sculpture beside the Eternal Fountain.
Then he went to the Bamboo Reed Kingdom and the Ghost Realm adjacent to Shacheng, where he played the local stacking game with the bamboo people in [Huanshan City], and also discussed postpartum care for slugs with the ghosts in [Black Rock City].
Kenshin traveled from city to city, which was either rich or unique. Finally, he went to the Sifang Kingdom in the abyss, where he joined the "Old God Society".
The biggest feature of this secret society is that it is relaxed and interesting. Everyone gathers together regularly to talk about their various strange experiences and study the old gods as a common hobby.
While everyone was drinking tea and honey wine, they were talking all over the place.
Kenshin likes this kind of gathering where everyone sits around and tells stories by the fire.
What he didn't expect was that there were some formal scholars in the "Old Gods Association", such as the red-haired potion master Moji from White Castle, who was also one of the organization's sponsors.
Moji once worked as a monk in the Abyss for two years, and is now engaged in potion-related research in White Castle.
The biggest benefit he brought to the "Old God Society" was to provide some delicious tomato sauce. This rare jam cannot be bought outside.
"The Old Gods are a special group of gods. They have nominally fallen, but their power has not completely disappeared, but exists in a way that we cannot understand for the time being."
Ma Ji said seriously: "I hope you can persist in observing and recording. One day, the veil of the old gods will be unveiled by us, and you will also go down in history and become heroes of the Yao people."
Due to various reasons, neither the seminary nor White Castle has conducted in-depth research on the field of old gods for the time being.
Therefore, Maji had high hopes for the "Old God Society" and gave a lot of help.
Kenshin originally thought that the power of the old gods was just a rumor. Until he went back to Sand City to visit his father. In the desert, he personally saw the methods that only the gods had.
The desert rises high, as if being pulled into the air by invisible hands, and the dunes twist slowly like water.
Wisps of strange black and silver lines emerged from it, and these lines slowly condensed on the ground, like metal earthworms.
The magic sword on Jian Xin's back was unsheathed, but he was completely unable to enter that strange area.
[Theology] Power can be sensed, which is a display of divine power and miracles.
After returning, Kenshin shared this knowledge with the "Old God Association".
He also began to believe that the old gods might really still be in this world, and that they existed in an invisible way.
After that, Kenshin actively collected information everywhere.
He purchased a [Wind Collector Crystal] and began taking pictures of possible traces of the old gods everywhere.
Whether it is suspicious and special phenomena, rocks and trees with strange shapes, or groups of people dressed strangely in secret rituals, Kenshin will freeze them into crystal phases.
During this process, Kenshin also encountered a lot of troubles. He was often discovered, criticized and questioned, but the biggest trouble was women.
Women would always appear in front of him and chat with him while he was filming.
From childhood to adulthood, he has attracted much attention from the opposite sex.
Whether they are the furry war cats, normal human girls from the Yao tribe, vampire girls, or tree demon girls, they all have a special liking for Kenshin, always greeting him with a smile, and want to make friends with him.
When he was a child, Kenshin felt that this was a shameful trouble. It was not a great talent at all, he was just handsome.
As he grew up, he gradually reconciled with himself.
My talent is just to be popular with women.
These female friends have also become Kenshin's best source of information. Some of them have also become his past girlfriends, or current girlfriends, or possibly future girlfriends.
One day, Kenshin received reliable information from a girlfriend that there were traces of the old gods in the Kingdom of Secrets.
So he packed his bags and hurried over as quickly as possible.
Although the Secret Arts Country is the ancestral homeland, Kenshin has only visited it very few times.
Because he doesn't like the environment there.
Most of the cities and settlements in the Kingdom of Secrets are messy, with poor public security and poor sanitary conditions. Drunks and homeless people are everywhere. From time to time, some madmen who have drunk secret medicine may appear to engage in self-destruction and indiscriminate attacks.
In that environment, just staying safe is a challenge every day.
It's normal for my father not to have any feelings for him after he left.
Girlfriend Ao Chen hugged Jian Xin and refused to let go for a long time.
In the end Kenshin had to push her away resolutely: "Let's get down to business."
Ao Chen said in a calm tone that was completely different from his enthusiastic body: "There are dragon footprints here."
"Dragon clan?"
"Yes. A powerful pure dragon, but you can't see its appearance. You can only see huge footprints and claw marks. There are also traces of divine power around it."
Ao Chen said with a serious face: "To hide a huge and powerful dragon, only the gods can do it. The gods of the Mystical Kingdom, from the previous Lord Mystic Star Crow to the current Lord Seven Sea Monsters, have all sent out The apostles searched everywhere for this matter, but to no avail."
"All I can think of is that it may be related to the old gods. So I thought of you."
"Um."
Jian Xin trusted Ao Chen's words.
Because the girl standing in front of her has two small fork-shaped horns on her head. She is a dragonborn and is naturally very sensitive to the power and breath of the dragon clan.
"But you have to be careful."
The dragon girl's face was serious: "Not long ago, the invisible dragon destroyed the headquarters of the "Black Temple". The origin seems to be related to the mysterious Lord of the Temple. There are rumors from the outside world that it is the Temple The sacred relics of the Lord were lost in the Resurrection Kingdom, causing the Lord of the Temple to become angry and unleash a dragon disaster..."
"We at the "Sihai Temple" performed sacrifices to heaven and prayed for blessings, but we were unable to learn the name and response of the dragon. The visitor is not malicious and may be the old evil dragon god. You must be extra careful and put safety first."
Kenshin nodded: "I mainly focus on photographing crystals and will not conflict with dragons."
"Anyway, I will take you to the "Sihai Temple" first and ask the Dragon Ancestor to give you some blessings. In this way, Yao God will bless you, the messenger will bless you, and with the Dragon Ancestor, you will be much safer."
Ao Chen held his hand without any doubt and walked towards the coast.
As she walked, she asked: "I heard that the sacred objects on the altar are in the hands of the Yao people. Is that true?"
"Not sure."
Kenshin said: "This kind of secret is probably only known to the gods and apostles."